Last Day

16th May was our last day at SK Taman Megah. It was a cold day. We gather and went to the school 7.30 am and reached there around 7.45 am.

When we arrived, the school kids were playing a friendly match of handball with nearby the schools. We were just observing from the side and helped them during the break. That afternoon,  we had a closing ceremony at the school hall. Our school team won the friendly match. After that, we started to distribute lunch to the school kids at the canteen. 

The program end with no problems and full satisfaction. I'm very happy to do this project and helping the kids. I'm looking forward to do this again next time. 

by Anis Farhana

KET 140002

What is Handball??

Despite the end of the event, it was never too late to learn about this particular sport - handball.

What is handball?
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the other team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins.

Two teams of seven players take the field and attempt to score points by putting the game ball into the opposing team's goal. In handling the ball, players are subject to the following restrictions:

• After receiving the ball, players can pass, keep possession, or shoot the ball.

• If possessing the ball, players must dribble, or can take up to three steps for up to three seconds at a time without dribbling.

• No attacking or defending players other than the defending goalkeeper are allowed to touch the floor of the goal area. Goalkeepers are allowed outside the goal area, but are not allowed to cross the goal area boundary with the ball in their hands.

• The ball may not be passed back to the goalkeeper when they are positioned in the goal area.

In general, it's almost similar to basketball with the difference of ball size and goal post instead of net.

Done with introductions, now down to why play handball instead of other sports?

-The game is fast, dynamic and the players need to be fit and work for the team. 

-The sport has a relatively rapid learning curve because the basic movements build on      natural human movements such as jumping, running, throwing and the variations of these. These unique elements distinguish handball from all other physical exercises. Handball  players need to be fit and skilled. 

-The intensity of the game, the constant physical challenges will work the muscles, the  central nervous system and the whole body. 

-The goalkeepers need to be athletic, flexible, brave and have extremely quick reflexes.

-Handball is also a game of tactics, strategies and problem solving.

I myself might not know about this sport very much before doing this. Now, it's a pleasure to know about it and I'm actually starting to like it. Wish to play this sport with my friends someday if things happened to work out.

That's all from me today.

Peace out!!

Lee Kar Jun

KET140007

oh hey Hello again ! This is me again, Aina writing for today's post...

On  the last 16th of May 2015, it was the last time for all of us  Telecom Student to come and help the students of SK Taman Megah for their training . To be honest I feel so sad and happy at the same time thou...Oh yes The feelings is undescribeable ( Stuck between feeling happy and sad at the same time.) Hahhaha I feel so sad because I'm not sure when I can I able to come and watch the cute young children train all the sport but at the same time I feel happy because of this Social Engagement course, all of us were able to gain and exciting and wonderful experience while helping the kids with their training~~
So for my post this time I would like to describe to you on what kind of event that we organize during that last particular day. As you all knew, we have been there training the kids for four weeks and so together with the teacher's help, we are able to come with an idea to held a tournament on that last day.
This is how the tournament on that last day looks like.Unlike the other three days that we came to train the children, for that day, two other schools that is SK Lembah Subang and SK Seri Selangor together with their two school's handball team came and have a handball game with the SK Taman Megah's team.
Since that each schools have two team so there was a total six games and overall it took only 2 hours for all the game to complete. The allocated time given to each games is about  15 minutes.
And right after the game,

So right after the game, we start off with the closing ceremony .This is where the excitement arise as the winners will be announce. As for the girl's team, Team from SK Taman Megah won the first place and and for the boys team, Team from SK Seri Selangor won the first place.

Congratulations to SK Seri Selangor's Team on for first place

and 2nd place goes to SK Taman Megah's team

Congrtaulation to SK Taman Megah's Girls's Team on winning for the first place

So all that I can i realy really really love this project I am so proud and honoured that I'm join this project !It was an awesome experience to me! And before I finish writing this post, I would like to thank you to all of the commitee and AJKs of this Cougar's Kids project and not forget to the participants ( the young kids) from SK Taman megah especially and everyone who have contributed for this project. Thank you for all of your hardwork during preparation for this project !

That's all from me.Thank you. <3

Lots of love,
Aina Yasmin Binti Abdul Halim Lim (KET140001)

What's in my mind???

Hello everyone!!!!!

     
 In my opinion I think the social engagement course is very useful for university students. this course train students to become more friendly and give students a chance to socialize with people regardless of their race.

       For me, I am as student feel that this program give me a chance to communicate and spend my time with primary school students. I miss my primary school life time every time attend for the sessions. Even some of the students behavior reminds me of my past. This reminds me where I'm from and from where I begin my life.

        Playing with the primary school students help me to release my tension and sometimes I forgot that I am 20. Sharing knowledge and experience by talking to them help them to face their primary school life.\

      Everyone of us must play our part in the society. What we received from our society we have to pay them back. We have to do good things back to our society so that this social "circle" will continue and we can enjoy the benefits together.

       I think this kind of program must be continued in future. Thank you.



RUBEN A/L NEOL
KET 140011

     

First Time

Waking up early during the weekend is not my cup of tea but there comes a knock on my door calling my name. At first I did not open the door but then it came to my mind that I had to attend the social engagement activity. I quickly freshen up myself and gather together with my group members. I was astonish looking at them. They were in HIGH spirit and I was like should we go????(but I had to go!!!!).We reached there about 7.30 a.m in the morning setting things up preparing breakfast for ourselves and the students.As the smaller hand on our watch hit 8 and the bigger hand hits 12, This indicated we should start our activity.As time passes by the sun ray was hitting right at us. The "Cloud Warriors"(actually it means a group of cloud[hehehe]) when missing when we really needed them. We felt like we were in an oven (actually I have never been into an oven) said one of my group member. At 10 a.m, everyone stopped and moved to the canteen and I thought this was the end but it isn't it was just the break I was really exhausted at the moment. After the break then we had a mini match between the students and us. Although the students was primary student we should not have underestimated their talent, some of them were as good as us and some are even better(shame on us).
After the mini match we provided the students with some orange juice as a thirst quencher( the orange juice was really tasty and made my day). Before sleeping I was going through my day and realised that waking up early on that day made me happy as I was able to mix around with the students. As the next Saturday comes I was really excited as was in HIGH spirit as the others.


Sancheev A/L Vathumalai
(KET140012)

Happiness

I never love to do any assignment especially when i need to sacrifice a lot of my time to do it. So social engagement project for me is just one of the things that i must do in my college in order to get good grades. That is the feeling before i went to do the project.

Remember my first visit to SK Taman Megah, when i first stepped in the school, i started to feel the atmosphere of primary school, with kids screaming, chasing each other and so on. I was assigned to teach these kids sports which i really feel uncomfortable at first but things changed after i start teaching them. Not a thing that they did when they participate in training failed to surprise me. I was stunned the time that how can their happiness be so true. When they train, they train. When they are playing a match, they put their full concentration on it, try to win the game the best that they can. No matter how tired they are, they always putting smiles on their face. They really love what they are doing, they really love the game. It reminded me as an adult, we always wants to benefit from something that we do. We started to infighting each other to get what we wanted. In the end, we lost everything, we lose happiness. 

If you ask me what is the outcome of the social engagement project, i would say to find back the passionate of me doing the things that i love to do. Never focus on what should i achieve but enjoy on the things that i am doing because i love to do it and i deserve doing it and i deserve the happiness of doing something i love. I will never regret joining the my college's sicial engagement project.

Chai Gau Hong
KET140003

FUN FUN FUN DAY!

Good day, everyone!

Today is my turn to update this blog. Since i never had a blog before, so this is very very awkward hahaha

Anyway, moving on to yesterday’s  story...

It was Saturday, and as usual, we’re going to SK Taman Megah again for the social engagement project. Since i was in charge for the transportation, i went home a day before so that i can take my car from my sister. I woke up earlier than usual which was at 6.15am and drove to UM at 7. Arrived at second college at 7.20am and waited for the other members to come.

As everyone gathered at 7.30am, we had a short briefing and headed to SK Taman Megah at about 7.40am. Since the school wasn't that far, and the traffic was clear, we arrived at 8 am.

As usual, we had our nasi lemak together and a few minutes after that, it’s time to do some stretching up! But since my leg’s injured two weeks ago, sadly, i can’t join them :’c But....i did throw some balls into the net until....the netball pole fell down on my wrist. Left some bruises on my wrist but luckily it was nothing.

So the netball game went fun as usual. I had fun looking at our team members playing netball against the kids. Really wish i could join them but it’s okay, there’s always next time kan haha. The game ended at 11 and had our lunch with the kids together. Packed everything up and heading back to UM at 1230pm.

It was a very very very tiring day but it was so much! Can’t wait for our next trip! Here’s some of the photos from yesterday’s trip.

That it is all from me today.

Deena Diyana bt Mustaffa Kamal,

KET 140005

The first visit.

Looking back, I began to unravel the first time us together went to SK Taman Megah for social engagement project. Having not done this sort of thing before definitely got me feeling nervous knowing that teaching the students there to play handball is what we had to do. Nevertheless, I still remember feeling excited in the morning and those excitement just kept growing more and more throughout the day.

It was cold in the morning when we all gathered before heading to the school. We had some bread for breakfast and all committees started taking part in their roles as soon as breakfast was over. Departure was slightly delayed from scheduled time due to the failure of some other members to show up at the gathering place on time. However, we managed to turn up at the school at eight in the morning as promised. 

First time meeting the students was fun. We had a mini ice breaking session where names and ages were exchanged. We didn't get to do much like playing games since time was definitely not on our side. The sun was already warming up the court after briefing was over. We then proceeded with warming up session and started training right away. The whole training process was tiring and literally testing our fitness. We had some short breaks in between only to be continued with further training.  

We then had a half and hour break for brunch at ten in the morning. We distributed nasi lemak and mineral water to the students before we had one our own. I could not describe how hungry we were and that was one of the moment where I thought nasi lemak could really taste that good.

After the break, that was when the fun part kicked in. We had a friendly match between the committees and students. The match lasted for an hour. At first I thought of not taking the match seriously but for fun sake instead. But I got to say the kids were really good slowly throughout the game, making myself wanting to beat them. I have to give credit for our amazing teamwork which granted us the victory. Every one of us played really well and the breaking sweats and energies under the extremely hot sun really paid off. We all were really happy and I saw sad faces in the students. We ended the game with hugs and congratulating each other.

After cleaning the court, we had a postmortem session where we had a discussion on the event that just took place. In the discussion, we raised our opinions on what went wrong and how to improve them. A few mistakes were pointed out but everything were attached with solutions in hoping that the same mistake won't occur again in the future. We all then headed back to our college only to anticipate for the next time. I really enjoyed myself throughout the entire time since everything was a new experience for me. Can't wait and definitely looking forward for another visit in the future.

Till next time!

Nur Qistina Binti Mohd Farid 

KET 140008

Stronger than before!

Alarm ringing in the background*

Woke up at 645am on a lovey Saturday morning to get ready for another fun yet tiring netball session with the kids from SK Taman Megah. Man, come to think of it I do miss those little mischievous energizer creatures, they would never run out of energy.

And so my day begins,
we(11 of us from telecommunication engineering) arrived at SK Taman Megah at roughly 745am, earlier than our arranged time, 800am. We then took the opportunity to grab some food before another hectic day starts. At sharp 800am, the students in their jerseys, gather around the netball court for some short briefing before commencing training. We could all see that the students brought their 'game face' and we know it's about to go down!

True enough, after warm up the students immediately got into position as how we placed them last week. I mean, we were impressed by how they reacted, it was pure professional athleticism. They then got down with their training, passing, shooting, defense, attack etc. The one thing that got to us most this week was that, their attitude towards the training have totally changed. They were discipline, determined, accurate and most importantly, focus. On the first week of training netball with this bunch, it was just messy. It was unorganized, no one was paying attention, even the facilitators themselves were blur. However, this week was just amazing. Drastic changes were seen, which made everything so much more smoother.

Training was split into two sessions, one from 800am- 10am and the other at 1030am-1pm. At 10am we distributed 'nasi lemak' to the students as well as to the facilitators, training resumed half an hour later. During the first session, I was just walking around to make sure no one was hurt or to give out bottled water, nothing much. At the second training session tho, I joined in the fun with the tiny students. We facilitators then had a friendly match with them which we totally got annihilated. haha. It makes so much sense why they are chosen to represent their school and not us.

At 1pm, we started cleaning and clearing the courts, picking up litters and empty bottled water. We said our goodbyes to the students and departed back to University of Malaya at 130pm. As soon as everyone got up the car, I dozed off all the back.

All in all, I was very happy and delighted to see the changes in how the students performed at the court this week. This made me realize how much we can do to help make one's life better even if it's just training in netball.

That's all from me tonight. Peace and love to you'll out there.

Pang Mun Choong 
KET140010

For God's sake, let me win!

Having a conversation was actually really nice. Thank you for that, kid I barely knew :')

"I'm just a little kid. Let me win." In silence, slowly she murmured with a sigh while keeping her hands busy blocking half of my body. 

I was thinking, the kid's got guts.

"Excuse me, what did you just say? No! I gotta win this game!." I replied her.

In a blink of an eye, another valid point is made by my team. I looked at her smiling.

"I'm sorry the ball accidentally shot the ring." I said to her. I'm so sure she saw my smile. 

She reacted just as I expected her to. She was smiling too.

That was an awkward conversation between me and the girl I was playing netball with. Despite her young age and small silhouette, she's surprisingly good. Looking down on others is prohibited, I said. Truth be told, I actually could see her eagerness to win this game. 

I knew she's on fire. FIRE~!!

now playing~! :')

Unfortunately, her team won't make it. I'd have to say that was the best part of game from them. Applause. 

Game over, we hardly won.

Basically, I'm talking about a program that I've joined named Cougar Kids Sports Camp 2015 to complete the 1st year Social Engagement project. For your information, Cougar Kids is an exciting new youth sports program specially made to kids. The main purpose of this program is to bring out the champion in every child. We, students of Telecommunications Engineering are just starting our handball and netball training classes for ages 10-12. In addition, we hope to bring opportunities to children to learn more about themselves and how to become the best they can be. 

Go back when we first arrived, we are glad that they happily welcoming us. After a short briefing, most players perform some type of regular warm up. Warming up should be the first thing on the to-do list to prevent an injury during training. Warming up sessions was lead by one of the students.

Even though kids' team doesn't play effectively, the kids were all alright. They've got spirit, yes they do! If you don't think they're awesome, maybe there's something wrong with you. Winning matters but aside from winning, what matters most is to treasure our talent because we live and we learn, basically.

*cough*

 Actually it's been a while since I've stopped doing sports, so it's quite shallow and hectic for me but it's really fun, everyone's chilled out. I felt healthy and good . Hope so many others feel the same way as I do.

Sure, for me all the memories that we've created with the kids would be the unforgettable thing in my life even for a short period of time. All those times would be the best memories. I hope everything I wrote here will sum up my awkwardness and happiness with people.

p/s:

I almost got my pants ripped off when my friends said I'm cool. I'd take it as a compliment. Thanks for that :') And to whom it may concern, you never cared about the game. Grab the ball, find the right direction and throw it. 

Weirdos, peace :D

Lots of love,

Nurul Athirah Binti Kodar

KET140009

Welcome Everyone !!

To our viewers,

 First of all, I would like to say HELLO  to you and for your information, this is the first post ever for this blog !!!! Oh yesss I'm super duper excited to write more XD but before I that, I would like to post this......

YEHAAAAA!!! WELCOME TO OUR BLOG !!! *clap clap hand*

Okay now with all the greetings and hellos (from different languages XD ) I would like to introduce ourselves and all you have to do is to sit and read and scroll. Like this fella over here...HAHAHAHA

WHO ARE WE ? 

UMTelecom Students is a group of students from Bachelor of Telecommunication Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering,University of Malaya which is situated in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

This group consist of eleven students and we have five Malay girls, three Chinese boys, two Indian boys and one International Student from Egypt.

WHAT ARE THE PURPOSE OF THIS GROUP?

This is one of the group that involve for our university's course, that is GXEX1417 Social Engagement and as for us as a university student, each and everyone of us have to create a group with another students and organize a project together. For this course, we as a group of students have to engage with the people outside of the campus and do some community work.

WHAT ARE THE PROJECT THAT WE ORGANIZED FOR THIS COURSE?

As for our group, we decided to teach sports such as handball and basketball to the primary school students.

WHAT ARE THE PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG?

This blog is the medium for us to write and to describe all the activities that we have done for our project. 

That's it for today. See you again !

Lots of love,

Aina Yasmin(KET140001)